Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology, methodological challenges and interpretive potentials.

Congrès, colloques, réunions - Appel à contributions / Call for papers

 

18-19 avril 2023
Canterbury - University of Kent - School of Anthropology & Conservation

 

 

Since its development in 2009, Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) has been applied to a wide array of archaeological bone remains to identify the type of animal (or human) they belonged to.

 

Besides targeted ZooMS studies to identify special objects or find human remains, ZooMS is now also being applied untargeted to identify large portions of the non-diagnostic fauna in an archaeological assemblage.

 

These large-scale analyses of morphologically unidentifiable bone remains are generating vast amounts of taxonomic and complementary data. While ZooMS identifications can enhance our understanding of human subsistence practices at a site, its quantitative integration with zooarchaeological and taphonomic data and indices (such as MNE, MNI, MAU) remains underexplored

 

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Organised by Geoff M Smith, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Frido Welker

 

Contact
G.Smith-548@kent.ac.uk

 

Please submit by February 1st 2023

 

Via Dr Geoff M Smith
 

@geoffreymsmith